Ashanti GJA Chairman rubbishes calls for his removal
The Ashanti Regional Chapter Chairman of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Listowel Yesu Bukarson has dismissed calls for his removal.
The national executive of the GJA has served notice it will formally remove the failed parliamentary aspirant following a petition by some Kumasi-based journalists.
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The journalists have called on Mr Bukarson to step down as GJA Ashanti Chapter Chairman after entering partisan politics to contest for a seat in parliament.
He contested in the just ended NPP parliamentary primaries in the Builsa North constituency of Upper East and was defeated.
President of the GJA Affail Money told Accra based radion, Starr FM that the association will announce his dismissal as president of the association in the Ashanti region this week.
“By deciding to go partisan and contesting for that political position, he relinquished his office and it’s as clear as water.
“So we will be coming out clearly to put in black and white that Listowel is no longer the president of the GJA in the Ashanti region,” he said.
But in a reaction, Mr Bukarson has said there was no basis for his removal. He spoke to Ultimate Radio in Kumasi.
“The GJA president has told me, he has not indicated anywhere that they are going to remove me and that he has been taken out of context.”
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“Regarding whether or not I have to resign, what are the grounds? Somebody should tell me what the grounds are so that we are able to in a cogent manner, defend the position of the call. The 2004 constitution of the GJA does not make that call and so I am even not sure why anybody will make that call.
“If indeed the President made that call; it was mischievous, it is ungrounded, has no merit and it’s vain,” he stated.
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